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Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by blowski »

cbuq wrote: post #13
chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

Wanted to add that I also dislike rating language proficiency on a scale. If you have 5/5 for a language, I expect you to be as knowledgeable as the authors of the language

I think it helps to say "relative proficiency in each language". For example, I would say I have 2/5 in Python, and 5/5 in PHP. I'm not saying that I'm the best PHP developer in the world, just that personally I'm much stronger in PHP than in Python.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by captainmuon »

denzil_correa wrote: post #24
chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

> Also: never, ever put a photograph of yourself in your resume. You're just asking for someone to judge you based on your looks, gender, age, or ethnicity. Likewise, don't put your age. If you've been around for a while, trim everything but the last 5-10 years of positions off your resume to avoid the unfortunate but oh-so-common ageism. Even old hiring managers can be ageist! Don't give anyone a chance to judge you…

What I actually find more problematic is that you traditionally put your marriage status in your CV in Germany.

If you haven't married your partner but have children together, they might think you are a single parent. If you are married, they worry that you might get kids and take parental leave (which is by law quite generous in Germany compared to other countries). And so on. I personally leave that out now.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by lou1306 »

pvdebbe wrote: post #51
Xophmeister wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep; it’s obviously not a deal breaker/winner, but we definitely notice. I once joked that we ought to mark up candidates with LaTeX CVs, but knock them slightly down if they stuck with Computer Modern :)

Crap. I like Computer Modern. :(

It is not bad, and its history (as well as Metafont's) is remarkable.

However, the Adobe Utopia font, available by using the fourier package, is so much better IMHO.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by fnl »

_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #60
purerandomness wrote: post #33

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> In Germany, you ALWAYS put a photograph in your resume. Not really. The more educated people are about this topic (e.g. have read "The Google Resume" by Gayle McDowell, which I highly recommend), or have had startup experience, the less common it is. We all should stop doing it, everybody will benefit.

It depends. Larger companies with traditional HR departments stickung to "the rules" will sort you out. Smaller companies like startups, especially without large HR, don't care about photos.

I never place a photo, martial status, or birthdate on my CV. Yet, I even got hired by Novartis (in Austria).

If a German company of any size really were to sort me out sure to those "omissions" on my CV, it's probably for the better - I doubt we could ever be a match.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by IvanAnishchuk »

Chris2048 wrote: post #58
chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

> You're just asking for someone to judge you based on your looks, gender, age, or ethnicity Could that work in your favor too?...

Yep, if you're a cute almost 30 dude with 20-ish looks applying, say, to a CTO position in a startup otherwise consisting of college kids... AKA my situation except I'm not looking right now. Yeah, I'd say there are situations when being judged by your looks gives you an advantage. That said, I didn't hunt a job for a long while and almost never in the Western countries (sending your CV to places that offer visa/relocation and never getting contacted doesn't really count) so maybe I don't know some local specifics, don't quote me on this.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by IvanAnishchuk »

Wehrdo wrote: post #14

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own "template", or modify someone else's. If you don't have those skills, you end up with a very bland, "stock LaTeX document"-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like. I once tried to redo my resume in LaT…

I disagree. I never really used anything but LaTeX/XeLaTeX to generate my CVs but I've seen what people make in text processors and it usually sucks. On the other hand, I agree, open source templates are rarely the best — and unless they are very generic I'd suggest not to use them verbatim. You don't want your CV to look like the other 50 in the pile (yet you don't want it to look too weird either).

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by IvanAnishchuk »

benou wrote: post #23
username223 wrote: post #22

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Speaking as someone with a LaTeX résumé, I agree with you. I use it because it's the typesetting tool with which I am most comfortable, not because it's the best tool for the job. I would never use HTML/CSS to create a résumé, but that's because I am bad at using them.

I "ported" moderncv LaTeX style in simple XHTML/CSS a while ago here: http://www.benou.fr/~ben/cv/cv.en.ganne.html Feel free to clone it if you find it useful. I use both moderncv for PDF and this for web-based resume.

I wanted to make something like for a while. I'd use a reportlab-based generator though and Jinja2 templates. Ideally, I want something that can generate both compliant and optimized HTML and a PDF, while having easily hackable style sheets and stuff. I'd add just a little bit of Python code to make it easy to add new stuff (new skills, new experience, etc.) and generate CVs with different highlights from the same data and templates (I used to have one for my primary stuff, one concentrating on devops stuff, one for immigration purposes, and yet another one for something I don't remember — it's hard to keep them all up to date when you mostly use just one).

Would be a cool project one day, for now I'll just keep using LaTeX.

I've moved past ModernCV though. Too many people are using it nowadays :)

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by wyldfire »

B1narySunset wrote: post #3

Do any interviewers notice resumes that are written in LaTeX compared to ones that aren't?

Yes, it's definitely a shibboleth. IMO it's a full duplex signal. When I notice that an interviewer noticed, it can make me more interested in an offer from that place if I think I'll be working with that/those interviewer/s.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by taeric »

bdamm wrote: post #42

LaTeX has lovely output (thanks Knuth!) but isn’t really achieving the dream of content fully separate from presentation. http://resume.dammfine.com Source is an XML document that describes my various experience, a system of XSLT that targets three forms; an HTML landing page, an HTML form of the resume as a document, and a LaTeX output for PDF. Haven’t updated my resume in 10 years but when I do it’ll be pretty stra…

To be fair, that was never Knuth's goal. And, really, for most documents the presentation is no small part of the content. As much as we might wish otherwise.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by IvanAnishchuk »

pmiller2 wrote: post #40
abritinthebay wrote: post #28

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LaTeX is not an efficient way to create anything . But, to be fair, it's not supposed to be efficient - it's supposed to be consistent . But I really wish it was less painful to use.

It's a very efficient way to typeset good looking mathematics. Of course, that's no surprise, because that's what it was built for.

Not just maths. It can be used to typeset books on any topics quite well, I did it for while a few years back. Text format makes it easy to convert any sources to it, and if you don't need many formulae nor tables/figures typesetting becomes pretty trivial. And unlike visual typesetting tools you almost can make an error of moving some guide too far or something, if you say 10mm margin it'll be a 10mm margin (visual tools have their use, I guess, just not when you're a geek and prefers to see code and not a picture). And it even warns you about underfilling/overfilling, what's not to love?

And speaking of word/openoffice/google docs. Those are text processing tools, not typesetting ones. If you need typesetting on any complexity their are the absolute worst choice. If your CV has a very simple structure and style, on the other hand, sure, go ahead.

I wonder if any tech recruiters notice this kind of things... If I wanted to hire nerds, I'd surely notice. CV made in word, marked with "not geek enough" :)

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